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Australian Federal Police given new powers for online crime.

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foroz:
the point is not them looking at you but rather if they catch one of us they can now become one of us and start to catch others for cheap.

ie its about account takeovers as the link says.

lets say that someone we know gets out of the lockup in oz.

they then say give me your account or your not getting out.

then this worshiped member is now AFP.

you totally missed the point of the thread.

you don't just have to keep your own nose clean you have to be aware of what our brothers and sisters are doing now or at least that they
could possibly no longer be who they were in the past.

aes256:
I think you need to recheck your assumption that tiny niche corners of society like us are even targets of federal agencies. As Kasey Jones said, they have budgets too. It's simply not economical for them to mount expensive resources funded by the taxpayer against tiny little fish who are of little harm to society.

I do however use a VPN but not because I'm paranoid that law enforcement are out to get me but purely on the principle of personal right to privacy. My ISP can get fucked - it's none of their business which sites I visit.

If you're running some red hot shit then sure you've got something to hide and need to take appropriate precautions. But last time I checked this forum was just a hangout place for amateur research scientists to share their chemistry ideas.. you dig?

Lipbalm:
"Things are getting more dangerous for australians that are involved with the darknet or even sites like this.

the australian government has passed law that allows the federal police to hack private computers and networks,
modify data on personal computers and networks and enforce people to give over there accounts so as they can
then impersonate people to trap others."

You realize the US has had this power for about 5 or 6 years now right? It was a big thing and the EFF tried tooth and nail to fight it and lost out to the FBI...... Not that they even need that power for Windows since you already signed away all those rights with Microsoft who you gave legal authority for them to go into your computer, browse all your files, copy files, replace files and do whatever they want the second you installed Windows. But the FBI/DEA has had this power for all systems for like 5 or 6 years now.

foroz:
debian rasbian and fedora for me for ever.

been a nix boy since slack 1.2.

we where using that shit before the web man.

I never understood the need for a commercial os other than our pirated games needed one at the time.

now I run everything other than cubase 10 on nix and then the cubase is on a usb that has its proxy set to a fictional ip so as not to allow it

access to the web.

I boot using wintousb for the win10 cubase usb.

I dont want steinberg smashing my system for cracking there software.

plus its so easy to ssh from one machine to another with nix.

then you can start piping ports and using ssl to hide your data.

add to that sshfs mounts and you can string multiple machines across the world as one machine.

wine has started to mature (pun intended)

libre is nearly as good as office.

gimp kills photoshop

krita is not far off corel painter

maya houdini all work on nix better than windows.

most of my windows games run faster on wine than native.

only reason to use windows or os x these days is your too lazy to learn nix.

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